Books written by Karen Armstrong

  • The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
    The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism

    Zachariah Frankel (1801-75). Nacliman Krochmal (1785-1840), and Abraham Geiger (1810-74) subjected the sacred sources of Judaism to modern scientific methods of inquiry. They formed a school. aptly known as “the Science of Judaism.

  • The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
    The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts

    and was 1886), Zechariah Frankel (1801–75), Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840) and Abraham Geiger (1810–74) applied modern critical methods to Jewish scripture and modern historiography to the history of Judaism, arguing that it was not a ...

  • The Bible: A Biography
    The Bible: A Biography

    Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840) and Zachariah Frankel (1801–75) agreed that the whole of the written Torah had been revealed to Moses on Sinai, but denied the divine inspiration of Oral Law, which was entirely man-made and could be altered ...

  • A History of God
    A History of God

    The 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

  • Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
    Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

    Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam.

  • The Battle for God
    The Battle for God

    Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity

  • Dante
    Dante

    The author of The Battle for God and other works on religion focuses her attention on the Buddha, retracing his life from prince to savior of humankind.

  • Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
    Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

    A life of the prophet Muhammad by best-selling religious writer Karen Armstrong

  • A Short History Of Myth
    A Short History Of Myth

    In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in the heart of the modern novel.

  • The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
    The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

    ... said the Qur'an, was their link with the Torah and the gospel: “They are like a seed that brings forth its shoot, and then he strengthens it so that it grows stout, and in the end stands firm upon its stem, delighting the sowers.

  • Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
    Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

    Karen Armstrong explains how to practise the religion of compassion that her last books have preached.

  • Through the Narrow Gate, Revised: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
    Through the Narrow Gate, Revised: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

    A few weeks later I was standing in the hall . It was ten to seven in the morning . As the youngest member of the community I had to leave the chapel at six forty - five and go down to wait for the priest who came sometimes to say Mass ...

  • The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
    The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

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  • Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
    Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

    Houte, Soetken van den Huai Valley (China) Huang Di, see Yellow Emperor Hudaybiyyah, Well of (Arabia), 7.1, 11.1 Huguenots Hulugu humanism, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2 Humbaba Hume, David Hundred Years' War Hungary, 8.1, 8.2 Husain (third ...

  • Med Gud på vår sida
    Med Gud på vår sida

    ... när den uppmanade palestinier att bli murabitun (”gränsens väktare”)92 och framställde den palestinska kampen som en klassisk defensiv jihad: ”När vår fiende inkräktar på vårt land blir jihad en plikt för alla muslimer (fard ayn).

  • Kampen för Gud: fundamentalism inom judendom, kristendom och islam
    Kampen för Gud: fundamentalism inom judendom, kristendom och islam

    Kampen för Gud: fundamentalism inom judendom, kristendom och islam

  • Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
    Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

    The award-winning author of A History of God shares practical recommendations for promoting world peace by cultivating one's intrinsic tendencies for compassion, outlining a program for achieving mindfulness and engaging in acts of kindness ...

  • Islam: A Short History
    Islam: A Short History

    Traces the history of Islam, from the flight of Muhammad and the founding of the first mosques to the development of the modern Muslim state, and examines its present beliefs and practices.

  • Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
    Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

    A comprehensive history of Jerusalem, the holy city venerated by the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, explains how the city became a defining site for the three religions, following its development from its earliest origins to the ...

  • A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
    A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

    In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present.